An Alabama sex shop owner has decided to do her bit for peace and luuurv this Valentine's Day, and is offering customers the chance to trade "Guns for Toys".
Flyer for the Guns for Toys offer Sherri Williams, owneratrix of Pleasures, in Huntsville, hopes to take 300 firearms off the street before the offer wraps on 15 February …

No questions asked...

Obviously you have not bought a gun from a commercial vendor in the US; if you had you'd know that there are certainly questions asked. If you buy a rifle then that is it; they ask the questions and you answer them, then you can buy. If you are buying a handgun, though, they ask the questions, you answer, then you wait for a while to buy the weapon.

Something's not right here

The toy shop owner "hopes to take 300 firearms off the street" but then "all guns that were used in a crime will be handed over to authorities while all others will be placed in an auction for sale on the store's website". That's not taking guns off the street, IMO.

Blame the original colonists

The Puritans came to North America to get away from folks who wouldn't let them force other folks to worship the way the Puritans wanted them to. A Puritan is a person who is very much afraid that someone, somewhere, is having a good time.

Medical need for a dildo -- Remains unclear...

However, medical need for a pocket pussy, blow up doll, or advanced lubricant is pretty straight forward. If you cant figure that one out, then apparently you've never had blue balls, which means A, you need to get out more, B, you've never had a woman, thus never been teased, or C, you've gotten laid by every woman you've ever screwed around with, which makes you either extremely lucky, to the point of some sort of god like status, or you're just simply a fuckin liar. my guess is is either A or B.

I think this is a great idea, if only they sold booze and smoke they'd be the perfect shop, i've always that the A.T.F (alcohol, tobacco and firearms) should be a convenience store, not a government agency. they could be called the A.T.F.FT, Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Fuck Toys... It would be a popular establishment, at least in the republican states...

Hysteria

Look up female hysteria on Wikipedia, or a reliable source if you prefer, and read under history. It is absolutely hysterical reading and should answer your question. (Yes, I see the pun, but the pun was not intended.)

Your post is a bit fucked up

Neck massagers

Surely* you must remember the adverts for 'Neck massagers' in the papers years ago - I suspect it was in the Sunday Sport? Viz also had a cartoon taking the mick out of the adverts. This was in the days before we had Ann Summers on the UK High Street - thankfully we've all grown up a bit now.

Rest easy

I'm a current resident of Alabama.

It's not hard to get "toys". (or mags, or dvd's, etc) There may be a law in place to prevent the sale to the general public, but it's not readily enforced. Yes we have to go into the back room of Love Stuff, and yes we do have to show ID to prove our age. Other than that, it's not a big deal.

Petty-minded puritanism? There's nothing puritanical about the vast majority of the men and women here. Is the current law stupid? Sure. Is it annoying? Yep. Is it representative of the general attitude of the people of the United States? No. Of the residents of Alabama? Not that I've observed.

And it's not just women that are prohibited from buying the toys. (and yes, men buy them) So it's not as comparable to Afghanistan. So relax. It's not as dire in Alabama and the US as you think.

@XML slave

I realise that the majority of the population of the US are probably pretty rational and not all that puritanical -- but the country as a whole is full of this kind of law and they had to come from somewhere. The comparison with Afghanistan was a little much, but it wouldn't surprise me if, for example, China feels a little freer to the man in the street where the law isn't always applied than to others who fall foul of it or to people who just read about the laws. It is US government policy to invade other countries over a perceived lack of freedom in that country (or, at least, that is the reason given) but when it comes to lack of freedom in the US they don't care a jot.

As an aside, because I always end up defending the right to some kind of sexual freedom: little laws like this do matter and are a problem in many ways because they can be and are enforced in a lax manner -- they can be applied when no other law is broken, but the officer involved takes offence, for example. They also say a lot about a justice system where the morals of a minority are enforced upon the majority even though no harm is involved.